CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-53662

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a memory leak vulnerability was resolved in ext4 in the ext4_fname_setup_filename() and ext4_fname_prepare_lookup() functions. If filename casefolding fails, memory from the fscrypt_name struct, namely the 'crypto_buf.name' member, is leaked in the error path.

Risk Assessment

Repeated casefolding failures may lead to kernel memory exhaustion and system instability.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that frees memory in the error path.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix memory leaks in ext4_fname_{setup_filename,prepare_lookup} If the filename casefolding fails, we'll be leaking memory from the fscrypt_name struct, namely from the 'crypto_buf.name' member. Make sure we free it in the error path on both ext4_fname_setup_filename() and ext4_fname_prepare_lookup() functions.

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